Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dnsmasq  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
85.91% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-DNSMASQ-356136
  • published3 Oct 2017
  • disclosed3 Oct 2017

Introduced: 3 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14495  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnsmasq package and not the dnsmasq package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Memory leak in dnsmasq before 2.78, when the --add-mac, --add-cpe-id or --add-subnet option is specified, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DNS response creation.

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